"Trump effect" shakes up Greenland elections

Discussion in 'Politics' started by TreeFrogTrader, Mar 12, 2025.

  1. Big loser is Denmark.

    They are not going to sign up to be American anytime this century but the two parties that will form a coalition are both committed to greater independence, which makes Greenland lean harder into how to survive on its own and towards finding other alliances. Enter the U.S.

    Same situation as in Canada. Trump moved their Prime Minister out and is impacting their internal politics and elections BIGTIME. All while the soy Canadian forum members here are beating their chest about how the US will never impact big bad Canada. giggle.



    Greenland election: opposition Democrat party wins surprise victory amid spectre of Trump

    Greenland has voted for a complete overhaul of its government in a shock result in which the centre-right Democrat party more than tripled its seats after a dramatic election campaign fought against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threats to acquire the Arctic island.

    Tuesday’s election, in which the Democrats replaced Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA), the party of the former prime minister Múte B Egede, as the biggest party in the Inatsisartut, the Greenlandic parliament, also led to a doubling of seats for Naleraq – the party most open to US collaboration and which supports a snap vote on independence – making it the second-biggest party.

    Both the Democrats and the second-placed party, Naleraq, favour independence from Denmark but they differ on the pace of change. Naleraq is the most aggressively pro-independence, while the Democrats favour a more moderate pace.


    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...y-wins-surprise-victory-amid-spectre-of-trump